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Posts by Tamar Mitts

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Why propaganda, hate and political extremism thrive in the attention economy - LSE Review of Books Dogwhistles & Figleaves by Jennifer Mather Saul & Safe Havens for Hate by Tamar Mitts explore how extremism thrives online & the limits of content moderation.

NEW✨ Why Propaganda, hate and political extremism thrive in the attention economy

Dogwhistles and Figleaves by Jennifer Mather Saul @oxunipress.bsky.social and Safe Havens for Hate by @tmitts.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social – a double review by Chris Featherman @mit.edu

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Tamar Mitts, "Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025) - New Books Network Support H-Net | Buy Books Here | Join the NBN and NBN en Español on Patreon | Visit New Books Network en Español!

@tmitts.bsky.social, author of Safe Havens for Hate, speaks with Miranda Melcher about her new book for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Listen to the full interview:

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Tamar Mitts, "Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025) - New Books Network

Had a great time chatting with Miranda Melcher of @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social on my new @princetonupress.bsky.social book, Safe Havens for Hate! Check out the recoding below:

newbooksnetwork.com/safe-havens-...

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Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism by Tamar Mitts

Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism by Tamar Mitts

Tomorrow (May 1) at 3:30 pm PDT: @stanfordcisac.bsky.social welcomes @tmitts.bsky.social for a discussion of her new book, Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism.

Register today for this hybrid event: cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/events/safe-...

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Platform Convergence and the Limits of Technical Solutions to Counter Online Hate | TechPolicy.Press Joseph Stabile considers the trajectory of online threat actors, voluntary platform commitments to counter terrorism, and international regulatory regimes.

Referencing Tamar Mitts’ recently published Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism, Joseph Stabile considers the trajectory of online threat actors, voluntary platform commitments, and international regulatory regimes over the past decade.

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Picture of book cover of Tamar Mitts’s book “Safe Havens for Hate”

Picture of book cover of Tamar Mitts’s book “Safe Havens for Hate”

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Just got my copy of “Safe Havens for Hate” by @tmitts.bsky.social in the mail.

A tour de force study of extremism—and an incredibly important and timely book.

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Content moderation is a policy problem, not just a platform problem We have all witnessed the familiar cycle. Extremist or hateful content surfaces online and sparks public outrage—perhaps a stream of violent propaganda, a wave of conspiracy theories, or explicit call...

"...we begin treating moderation not as a job for any single platform but as a collective societal and policy challenge—one more akin to environmental protection or public health than a proprietary issue of corporate community guidelines." H/T @tmitts.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/ideas/conten...

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Why the Fight Against Online Extremism Keeps Failing Yes, Big Tech can do more. But all online spaces must commit to a more unified stance against extremism.

What can be done about thriving hate groups on social media platforms?

@tmitts.bsky.social, author of Safe Havens for Hate, shares her research and takeaways on online extremism for TIME: time.com/7264828/onli...

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The persistent threat of online hate When the internet was switched on, we were told this was the dawn of the information age. Turns out it was the birth of the disinformation age. There have been efforts to rein in the hate content on s...

Listen: @tmitts.bsky.social, author of Safe Havens for Hate, spoke with @texasnewsdude.bsky.social for @texaspublicradio.bsky.social's The Source about online extremism: www.tpr.org/podcast/the-...

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Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism by Tamar Mitts

Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism by Tamar Mitts

How content moderation shapes the tactics of harmful content producers on a wide range of social media platforms.

@tmitts.bsky.social's Safe Havens for Hate is out now!

Learn more about this important book and preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Safe Havens for Hate Why efforts to moderate harmful content on social media fail to stop extremists

📢 It's out! My new book "Safe Havens for Hate" explores how extremists exploit gaps in online moderation to spread hate across platforms. Out now with
@princetonupress.bsky.social ! 📖 Read more & order: press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691258522/safe-havens-for-hate

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Safe Havens for Hate Why efforts to moderate harmful content on social media fail to stop extremists

Looks like a great – and particularly timely – read (by @tmitts.bsky.social / @princetonupress.bsky.social)
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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The advance copy of my book, Safe Havens for Hate, is here! It offers a deep dive into the moderation of harmful content on social media and explains why efforts to combat online extremism keep failing. Official release March 4! press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691258522/safe-havens-for-hate

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I'm excited to present today at Tel Aviv University a new working paper with @tmitts.bsky.social, @ylelkes.bsky.social, @hnmansour.bsky.social and Ran Abramitzky, entitled "Expression at the Edge: Free Speech Boundaries Amidst the Gaza Crisis." The draft will be publicly available in 2 weeks.

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Latest issue | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core Perspectives on Politics

New issue of Perspectives on Politics out, including my (open access) article w/Asfandyar Mir and Tamar Mitts on using social media to identify murky patterns of elite competition and alignment, with evidence from around the 2018 Pakistani general election:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Hello Bluesky

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